Project ID NNNNNN-NN Date MM/DD/YY Project Name Project Objectives Project objectives include the measurable success criteria of the project. Projects may have a wide variety of business, cost, schedule, technical, and quality objectives. Project objectives can also include cost, schedule, and quality targets. Each project objective has attributes such as cost, volume, etc., a metric, and an absolute or relative value. Product Scope Describes the characteristics of the product, service, or result that the project was undertaken Definition to create. These characteristics will generally have less detail in early phases and more detail in later phases as they are progressively elaborated. While the form and substance of the characteristics will vary, the scope description should always provide sufficient detail to provide later project scope planning. Project Requirements Describes the conditions or capabilities that must be met or possessed by the deliverables of the project to satisfy a contract, standard, specification or other formally imposed document. Analyses of all stakeholder needs, wants, and expectations are translated into prioritized requirements. Project Boundaries Identifies generally what is included within the project. It also states explicitly what is excluded from the project, if a stakeholder might assume that a particular product, service, or result could be a component of the project. Project Deliverables Deliverables include both the outputs that comprise the product or service of the project, as well as ancillary results, such as project management reports and documentation. Depending on the project scope statement, the deliverables may be described at a summary level or in great detail. Product Success Defines the process and criteria for successful products. Criteria Project Constraints/ Lists and describes the specific project constraints associated with the project scope that limit Assumptions the team's options. For example, a predefined budget or any imposed dates that are issued by the customer. Lists and describes the specific project assumptions associated with the project scope and the potential impact of those assumptions if they prove to be false